Re: Sorting is implemented in cdebconf CVS (was Re: Countrychooser commited in CVS)

2004-01-28 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): We have 20 kilobytes free on the root floppy. Don't make me laugh.. OK, OK, I understand : I was absolutely unaware of these room problems. So, currently, Denis proposal seems to be the only way to get sorting properly work at least in very early

Re: Sorting is implemented in cdebconf CVS (was Re: Countrychooser commited in CVS)

2004-01-27 Thread Denis Barbier
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 07:37:25AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: [...] * This script should be split into 2 parts: a. print the sorted list (ie $output) into a file sorted.$lang b. read sorted.$lang files and add Indices fields. This way sorted.$lang files could be put

Re: Sorting is implemented in cdebconf CVS (was Re: Countrychooser commited in CVS)

2004-01-27 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Denis Barbier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): However, in the meantime, the country sorting by region has been added by Joey. For English names only. Hmmmwith translated names, the countries are properly distributed in regionsOf course, inside the regions lists, the sorting is still

Re: Sorting is implemented in cdebconf CVS (was Re: Countrychooser commited in CVS)

2004-01-27 Thread Joey Hess
Christian Perrier wrote: Any chance to get the locales package installed *before* running all this? Maybe an udeb with only the needed stuff? We have 20 kilobytes free on the root floppy. Don't make me laugh.. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Sorting is implemented in cdebconf CVS (was Re: Countrychooser commited in CVS)

2004-01-26 Thread Denis Barbier
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 09:07:56PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 07:15:28AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: [...] I first need to add some sorting in English.and after this, we will be thrown in the known problem of translations sorting (which is not

Re: Sorting is implemented in cdebconf CVS (was Re: Countrychooser commited in CVS)

2004-01-26 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Denis Barbier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): This has been tested on countrychooser with the help of the attached script; $ sort_countries --lang=fr --locale=fr_FR.UTF-8 \ debian/templates debian/templates.sorted Now if templates is replaced by templates.sorted, countries are

Re: Countrychooser commited in CVS

2004-01-18 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Speaking of which, someone should look into a way to make the KDE setup wizard be feed the debian-installer/country setting to avoid re-prompting for country. And all packages using their own language selection template be fed by

Re: Countrychooser commited in CVS

2004-01-17 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I have changed tzsetup to do this in base-config's cvs. It seems pretty sweet, but could use some more testing. /me compiles base-config from CVS... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Countrychooser commited in CVS

2004-01-17 Thread Christian Perrier
(Alastair, this is a discussion in -boot about countrychooser, a new d-i package, which makes use of your iso-codes package. I need to talk with you about some issues) Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): That's interesting. This is a place where cdebconf deviates from the debconf spec,

Re: Countrychooser commited in CVS

2004-01-17 Thread Christian Perrier
Dia is Muire duit, (freelang is my friend..:-)) Am Sath, 2004-01-17 ag 08:47, scríobh Alastair McKinstry: I will also ask him for a iso-3166-udeb package as countrychooser needs the iso-3166.tab file as reference. Ok, that I can do. Should it just contain the .tab file, or the .po files

Re: Countrychooser commited in CVS

2004-01-17 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Am Sath, 2004-01-17 ag 08:03, scrobh Christian Perrier: (Alastair, this is a discussion in -boot about countrychooser, a new d-i package, which makes use of your iso-codes package. I need to talk with you about some issues) Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): That's interesting. This

Re: Countrychooser commited in CVS

2004-01-17 Thread Matt Kraai
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 11:44:20AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Well I was wondering about geographical drill-down, or just geographical groupings/headings in the list: Europe Germany France Spain ... America

Re: Countrychooser commited in CVS

2004-01-17 Thread Joey Hess
Matt Kraai wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 11:44:20AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Well I was wondering about geographical drill-down, or just geographical groupings/headings in the list: Europe Germany France Spain ... America

Re: Countrychooser commited in CVS

2004-01-16 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Shouldn't there be spaces between the country names in the Choices list? Well, as this is automatically generated, I figured that this wasn't a problem. The file is only processed by cdebconf which is very happy with it as it is... I'm also concerned that

Re: Countrychooser commited in CVS

2004-01-16 Thread Christian Perrier
The mirror question, based on the wording and intent (pick someone topologically close to you, even if they're across the border), will need to stay, I think. I personnaly doubt that several users will choose something else than their own country. How many people in the world are able to know

Re: Countrychooser commited in CVS

2004-01-16 Thread Joey Hess
Steve Langasek wrote: I believe it should be possible to eliminate the extra timezone question for users in most countries, but this will take some work to script sanely. You're thinking about making it look at the country and boil that down to a list of timezones inside the country, I

Re: Countrychooser commited in CVS

2004-01-16 Thread Joey Hess
Christian Perrier wrote: I personnaly doubt that several users will choose something else than their own country. How many people in the world are able to know that, say, ftp.de.debian.org is topologically closer to them than ftp.fr.debian.org? Maybe, the mirror country question should have

Re: Countrychooser commited in CVS

2004-01-16 Thread Joey Hess
Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Shouldn't there be spaces between the country names in the Choices list? Well, as this is automatically generated, I figured that this wasn't a problem. The file is only processed by cdebconf which is very happy with it as it

Re: Countrychooser commited in CVS

2004-01-16 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 09:42:34AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: The mirror question, based on the wording and intent (pick someone topologically close to you, even if they're across the border), will need to stay, I think. I personnaly doubt that several users will choose something else

Re: Countrychooser commited in CVS

2004-01-16 Thread Denis Barbier
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 07:15:28AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: [...] I first need to add some sorting in English.and after this, we will be thrown in the known problem of translations sorting (which is not countrychooser specific, by the way) This requires changes in cdebconf, so you

Re: Countrychooser commited in CVS

2004-01-16 Thread Joey Hess
I wrote: You're thinking about making it look at the country and boil that down to a list of timezones inside the country, I suppose. Using zone.tab for the mapping. Unfortunalty, some people will want GMT, and since someone could be doing something strange, I will probably need an other that

Countrychooser commited in CVS

2004-01-15 Thread Christian Perrier
The newly proposed countrychooser package has been commited to HEAD. General design ideas: - * All countries are proposed The country list, names and ISO codes are taken from the iso-codes package * The package sets up debian-installer/country debconf value Thus,

Re: Countrychooser commited in CVS

2004-01-15 Thread Joey Hess
Shouldn't there be spaces between the country names in the Choices list? I'm also concerned that this is a _very_ long list of countries to scroll through, but I have not actually ran the program yet. -look at other places which ask for a country (mirror location, timezone configuration) and

Re: Countrychooser commited in CVS

2004-01-15 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 01:54:25PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Shouldn't there be spaces between the country names in the Choices list? I'm also concerned that this is a _very_ long list of countries to scroll through, but I have not actually ran the program yet. -look at other places which ask